Private Equity
Thomson Reuters has struck a deal with consulting firm Cambridge Associates to provide the latter’s private equity benchmarking data to subscribers of the Thomson Reuters Eikon service. Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB) and its predecessors, including Venture Economics, collected and published buyout and venture capital return data and statistics for more than two decades.
2 min read · 13 March 2014
Firm brings on former Parish Capital Advisors Director Simpson as it markets its third fund of funds
2 min read · 14 January 2014
Despite having nearly $6 trillion in assets under management, sovereign wealth funds are notoriously hard to pin down and figure out. Now a PhD student thinks he’s found some identifying qualities that help money managers sort them into three main groups.
2 min read · 10 December 2013
Christopher Pace, who has spent a good part of his career managing funds of funds and co-investments, has agreed to join growth equity investor Vintage Fund Management as a principal with roles in investor relations, fundraising and portfolio management.
2 min read · 03 October 2013
2 min read · 11 March 2013
Riding high on their access to top venture funds, endowments left other categories of limited partners in the dust, performance-wise, in the 1990s. But by the following decade they had largely lost their Midas touch.
2 min read · 13 February 2013
While all for aligning their interests with those of limited partners, buyout pros will have to hope that the exceptionally LP-friendly partnership terms offered by Public Pension Capital Management don’t spread too broadly. Then again, most funds don’t present investors with quite the risks that this particular debut offering does.
4 min read · 01 October 2012
This clean energy investor has an unusual approach to ensure a thriving market for its portfolio companies' products.
3 min read · 21 February 2012
David Teten, founder of one company that mines social networks for deal leads, another that mines social networks for recruitment leads, another that connects hedge fund managers with industry executives, and another one (alas, now defunct) that provided investment banking services to buyers and sellers of domain names, has landed a gig as a venture capitalist. Teten has become the second partner at New York-based ff Venture Capital since its inception in 1999. The firm holds stakes in such notable companies as Klout Inc. (mine is 50, thank you very much) and Hashable Inc., a company that stands at the crossroads of CRM and, yes, hash tags. Having known Teten for nearly a decade, and admired his mastery of the social networking scene, I thought I’d catch up with him with five questions to find out more about his new firm.
4 min read · 22 June 2011
3 min read · 08 June 2011
